Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Battle Under the Ice Wall
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With tears in his eyes, Helamurun stabbed the long knife in his hand into the waist of a Song army, he didn't pull out the knife directly, because the knife was easy to get stuck in the ribs, so he began to cut around, the knife cut off Song Jun's belt, and got rid of the fetters from the other side, and he saw that Song Jun's internal organs flowed all over the ground.
Such a victory did not make him become confident, but made his sense of fear even stronger, he was lucky to survive in the mouth of the wild fox, but the world did not die, died very miserably, to this day Helamulun still remembers the scene of the world in the head being shattered by the flail.
Raiding the Song army from the tunnel, this is the idea of the marshal, the marshal selected the most brave warriors from the whole army to take on this important task, he very ununderstandable, why he chose himself.
There was not much food left in the city, and some of the emaciated horses had been slaughtered, and Helamulun remembered that he had only eaten a fist-sized piece of horse meat after he had just set out on an expedition, which was already the best treatment in the army.
Now he understands that the piece of horse meat he ate needs to be returned ∑ his own life.
A bright light flashed in front of him, and Helamulun protected his upper body with his own log shield, and soon a loud bang came, and there was a sharp pain in his thigh, which should have been a fragment of a gunpowder bullet that had penetrated into his thigh.
Helamulon roared, his voice was extremely sad and angry, and the injury to his thigh meant that he could no longer run fast, and there was no way to use his powerful legs to escape from the battlefield like he did during the Battle of Wild Fox Mouth.
He was pushed on the back, and he saw that his general, Hou Langjun, was roaring at him with a bloody mouth, but Helamulun's ears were ringing. Nothing can be heard.
Only Hou Langjun is a real veteran of a hundred battles in the Liao State, and only those who have served as two military tent guards can get this title, so Helamulun is very in awe of him.
When Helamuron turned around, he was about to get closer to hear what he was saying, but he found that a crossbow arrow had pierced through his throat, and the big mouth was no longer a sound, but a mouthful of blood.
In despair, Helamurun saw a hole in the ice wall. Without saying a word, he got into the gap, his feet were slippery, he stumbled, and then his body rolled down the gap.
Before he could come to his senses, two huge horses' hooves swept over his forehead, and the log shield that Helamuron hung from his arm saved him once more, and the horse's hind hooves struck the shield and kicked him into the distance once more.
The horse only ran two steps before a thick crossbow bolt entered the horse's chest. Then the cavalry lying on the back of the war horse was strung together, and Helamulun clearly saw the front hooves of the war horse kneeling on the ground, and rolled on the ground with the cavalry twice before he began to convulse violently.
The dizzy Helamulun saw that the ground was full of fallen horses and cavalry, some of the cavalry were not dead, but were pressed under the horses and shouted for help.
People came and went on the battlefield, and the cavalry rushed towards the ice wall like a tide, and the cavalry who came to the front of the ice wall did not care about the attack and lay on the ground to attack their own Song army. Instead, he struck the wall of ice with all the weapons he could use, and the flail. Hammers, maces, horse lances, war knives, each blow carries a piece of ice and snow, but. The Song army, which was hiding behind the ice wall, continued to hurt the brave Liao cavalry, crossbow guns, gunpowder bullets, crossbow arrows, and trebuchets like poisonous snakes. Throwing guns, they will do everything they can, and will even throw a kind of iron ball that can burn violently, forming a wall of fire twenty steps away from the ice wall.
The cavalry of a military tent disappeared, according to Helamurun's calculation, because he saw a pennant fall in front of him, and one flag represented the five hundred cavalry of a military tent.
The corpse of the war horse finally pressed a path through the wall of fire, and on that narrow passage, a cavalryman holding a pennant fiercely crossed the corpse of the war horse and rushed in through the gap......
Helamuron felt like an outsider, he didn't dare to stand up, because that would attract crossbow arrows, or gunpowder bullets, or other weapons, and his only choice was to buckle the family heirloom log shield to his body, and shrink his body under the shield as much as possible, so as not to be trampled into flesh by the war horse, and he even had time to take out a small wolf tooth from the compartment of the belt in his arms, hold it with one hand and pray to the gods so that he would not repeat the mistakes of those cavalry.
A huge piece smashed into the clearing where Helamurun was, and the corpse of a war horse was smashed by the waist, and immediately more boulders continued to fall on Helamulun's side, and even a boulder directly bombarded the ice wall, knocking a large piece away, and the ice wall was covered with spiderweb-like cracks.
A Song army marquis roared and appeared at the gap in the ice wall, and a spear more than a zhang long pierced a Liao cavalry who was wandering around the gap and was about to rush in, the black iron armor was full of white feather arrows, and he was stuck in the gap alone, like a new ice wall.
A long arrow with white tail feathers came out of the darkness and landed accurately on the soldier's cheekbone, and the hard cluster of arrows pierced his cheekbone and then pierced his left cheek, and he threw the spear as a throwing spear instead of retreating......
The battle in front of the ice wall entered a white heat, and the cavalry rushed out of the thick smoke in a steady stream, and the tide slammed on the wall, shattering and scattering in front of the ice wall.
The front chest of a war horse has been blurred by the flesh and blood of the gunpowder bomb, and the same is true of the cavalry on his body, the eyes of the war horse are even drooping outside the eye socket, he can't see the left side clearly, but he just rushes forward frantically with the cavalry.
The war horse crashed into the ice wall and broke bones, but it was not only the war horse and the cavalry that were shattered, the ice wall full of cracks finally shattered like a piece of jade that was beaten, and the ground was full of crystal ice and snow, and then countless incendiary bombs were thrown out from behind the gap with the screams of the soldiers, and after the loud noise, a large flame had appeared at the gap, and then seven or eight climbing plows were carried over, overturned and re-blocked on the ice wall......
Helamurun crept a few steps to the side, and without the strenuous movement, his body soon felt very cold, and finally found a small bag of dirt, and he began to dig through the soft sand with his hands like a marmot......
Countless boulders flew out of the darkness, and the ice wall soon fell apart.
The Song army's six eight-bull crossbows were re-elevated, and the thick eighteen thick crossbow arrows shone with dazzling light, and these crossbow arrows equipped with white phosphorus crossed the sky with a buzz, forming eighteen beautiful arcs in mid-air, and then exploded in mid-air, and the white phosphorus that was blown up near the entire battlefield shone like day.
Although the light was only for a moment, the trebuchet hidden in the smoke flickered, and after the short positioning, in the roar of the Liao general, countless gunpowder shells were thrown into the air by the ballista, and rained down on the array of the Liao trebuchet.
The explosions rang out intensively, and the firelight accompanied the scattered parts of the trebuchet flying wildly in the air, and the cavalry of the Liao people continued to launch a new round of assault on the Song army with the light of the gunpowder bullets.
Xijing City is like a huge beehive, and soldiers are constantly pouring out of it, and as soon as they get out of the city gate, they will launch a new round of charges against the ice wall of the Song army.
The dense sound of bull horns almost drowned out the explosion of gunpowder shells, and each horn sounded to represent the beginning of a military tent.
The cavalry was followed by a large group of infantry, these soldiers who originally belonged to the Han race, at this time also had red eyes, carefully shielded their bodies with shields, and quickly pressed towards the ice wall in the cavalry group.
Lang Tan's voice had become hoarse, the light in the hands of the soldiers was constantly changing, and he had just disposed of the threatening trebuchet, and the outside of the ice wall was already covered with dense Liao soldiers.
Wave after wave of crossbow arrows flew into the air, and then fell, the eight bull crossbows opened up one after another in the crowd, and soon they would be filled by the crowd, at this time the Song army only knew the mechanical loading crossbow arrows, and then hung the crossbow string with their feet, and then shot out the three crossbow arrows on the crossbow machine together.
The black smoke almost obscured the bright moonlight, and it seemed that even the moon could not bear to continue to witness the tragic situation in front of her, and hurriedly fell to the top of the mountain.
The earth was dark.
Yun Zheng watched as the last Liao army to rush towards the high ground of his preset commander fell under the crossbow arrows, and said to the monkey with a sigh: "Tell Lang Tan that he can fire incendiary bombs, and then after blowing up the igloo, he will evacuate the first ice wall and go back behind the second ice wall." ”
Su Xun saw that the monkey had already gone to give the order, and couldn't help but open his mouth and ask, "Dashuai, our first ice wall has not been lost!" ”
Yun Zheng shook his head and said: "Fighting in the dark is very unfavorable for us, the Liao army is now jumping over the wall, as long as we consume the Liao people's fighting spirit under these ice walls, they will soon be desperate."
What's more, the first ice wall is still under the blow of the Eight Bull Crossbow, even if the Liao people occupy the first ice wall, there is no way to use it, let alone continue to advance, during the day, they want to bargain under the crossbow arrows and ballistas of our army, I am afraid it is not so easy. ”
Su Xun frowned and said, "But once we retreat, the encirclement will become larger, which will make it more convenient for the Liao people to deploy their troops." If they continue to attack us tomorrow night, will we continue to retreat? ”
Yun Zheng said with a smile: "The territory lost at night will be recaptured during the day!" (To be continued.) )
PS: Chapter one